From reading around the internet it seems that installing the perl module DBD::mysql is somewhat problematic and so there are a large number of threads concerning this and i have tried the many tips and solutions out there but to no avail...

My Setup

OSX:10.3.9 Perl: Self compiled version 5.8.8 (located on my machine at /usr/local/bin/perl) MySQL: pre compiled version from mysql site (mysql-standard-5.0.27-osx10.3-powerpc)(located on my machine at /usr/local/mysql) Apache: Self compiled version 1.3.37 with mod_perl1.29(located on my machine at /usr/local/apache)

My Problem I'm trying to connect to mysql through the appache server but i get the error message ...Can't locate DBD/mysql.pm in @INC...

So i have downloaded DBD-mysql-4.001.tar.gz from CPAN and have tried to compile the module with the standard make proccedure (perl Makefile.PL, make, install make) but on the make step i get this output...